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From: mentifex@scn.org (SCN User)
Subject: Re: Mentifex and real AI
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:38:08 GMT
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In a previous article Sasikumar M <sasi@saathi.ncst.ernet.in> says:

> I have some concerns with Matt Ginsberg's posts. Performance
> cannot be the sole criteria for AI. What will define AI? [...]

>   - Sasikumar

Maybe "performance" is necessary to satisfy the driven ego-ferocity
of engineers, chief executive officers and politicians but the root
questions of AI are far more philosophical than practical in nature
and require dreamers to show the way for the hard-bitten engineers.

Imagine! what engineers will achieve once they see the light of AI.

It is so important and so unavoidably crucial to win over engineers
that we will pour out libations and burnt offerings to the caste of
engineers with infinite patience until the engineers save humanity.

     Satyan eva jayate -- Mohandas Gandhi ("Truth alone prevails.")

>>> /^^^^^^^^^^^\ Top-down Overview; Details on WWW /^^^^^^^^^^^\
   /visual memory\           ________   semantic   /  auditory   \
  |      /--------|-------\ / syntax \  memory    |episodic memory|
  |      |  recog-|nition | \________/<-----------|-------------\ |
  |   ___|___     |       |    |flush-vector      |    _______  | |
  |  /image  \    |    ___V____V___  word-fetch   |   /stored \ | |
  | / percept \<--|-->/ conceptual \--------------|->/ phonemes\| |
  | \ engrams /   |   \ mini-grids / for thinking |  \ of words/  |
  |  \_______/    |    \__________/  in language  |   \_______/   |
